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Man  with  the     no 
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Edwin 
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The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


GOD  made  Man  in/tu  own  Image./*  t 

owed  by  the  weight 
of  centuries  he  leans 
Upon   his  hoe  and 
gazes  on  the  ground, 
he  emptiness  of  ages  in  his 

face, 

nd  on  his  back  the  burden 
of  the  world. 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


ho  loosened    and   let   down 

this  brutal  jaw? 
hose   was   the   hand   that 

slanted  back  this  brow  ? 
hose   breath    blew    out    the 

light  within  this  brain  ? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 

ho  made  him  dead  to  rap- 
ture and  despair, 

thing  that  grieves  not  and 
that  never  hopes, 

tolid  and  stunned,  a  brother 
to  the  ox  ? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


s  this  the  Thing  the  Lord 
God  made  and  gave 

o  have  dominion  over  sea 
and  land; 

o  trace  the  stars  and  search 
the  heavens  for  power; 

o  feel  the  passion  of  Eter- 
nity? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


s  this  the  Dream  He  dreamed 
who  shaped  the  suns 

nd  pillared  the  blue  firma- 
ment with  light? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


own  all  the  stretch  of  hell 
to  its  last  gulf 

here  is  no  shape  more  terri- 
ble than  this  — 

ore  tongued  with  censure  of 
the  world's  blind  greed — 

ore  filled  with  signs  and  por- 
tents for  the  soul  — 

ore  fraught  with  menace  to 
the  universe. 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


hat  gulfs  between  him  and 
the  seraphim ! 

lave  of  the  wheel  of  labor, 
what  to  him 

re  Plato  and  the  swing  of 
Pleiades? 

hat  the  long  reaches  of  the 
peaks  of  song, 

he  rift  of  dawn,  the  redden- 
ing of  the  rose? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


hrough  this  dread  shape  the 
suffering  ages  look; 

ime's  tragedy  is  in  that 
aching  stoop; 

hrough  this  dread  shape 
humanity  betrayed, 

lundered,  profaned  and  dis- 
inherited, 

ries  protest  to  the  Judges  of 
the  World, 

protest  that  is  also  proph- 
ecy. 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


masters,  lords  and  rulers  in 

all  lands, 
s    this    the    handiwork  you 

give  to  God, 
his  monstrous  thing  distorted 

and  soul-quenched  ? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


ow  will  you  ever  straighten 
up  this  shape; 

ive  back  the  upward  looking 
and  the  light; 

ebuild  in  it  the  music  and 
the  dream; 

ouch  it  again  with  immor- 
tality ; 

ake  right  the  immemorial 
infamies, 

erfidious  wrongs,  immedica- 
ble woes? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


masters,  lords  and  rulers  in 

all  lands, 
ow  will  the  Future  reckon 

with  this  Man  ? 
ow  answer  his  brute  question 

in  that  hour 
hen  whirlwinds  of  rebellion 

shake  the  world? 


The  Man  with  the  Hoe 


ow  will  it  be  with  kingdoms 
and  with  kings  — 

ith  those  who  shaped  him  to 
the  thing  he  is  — 

hen  this  dumb  Terror  shall 
reply  to  God, 

fter  the  silence  of  the  cen- 
turies ? 


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